[GRASS-user] RE: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup

[Michael Barton]

I saw these changes but hadn't looked into them yet.

Michael
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School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

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> From: Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:44:15 +0100
> To: "Patton, Eric" <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca>
> Cc: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>, <grassuser at grass.itc.it>,
> <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] RE: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup
> 
> Patton, Eric wrote:
>> Here's my .grassrc6:
>> 
>> GISDBASE: /home/epatton/Projects
>> WORK: /home/epatton/Projects/BlackPoint/PERMANENT/WORK
>> DEBUG: 0
>> LOCATION_NAME: FundyBathy
>> MAPSET: GOM2_Year1_June_2006
>> MONITOR: x0
>> GRASS_GUI: gis.m
> 
> If you replace the latter with
> 
> GRASS_GUI: tcltk
> 
> it should work.
> 
> This is linked to Hamish' changes to allow a more precise choice of gui:
> 
> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass-commit/2006-November/024978.html
> 
> GRASS_GUI: gis.m works for me in 6.3, but I don't think these changes
> were backported to 6.2. So if you work in a mixed 6.2/6.3 environment,
> this might break things (i.e. launching grass with the -tcltk command in
> 6.3 automatically puts 'gis.m' in the GRASS_GUI variable, but 6.2 does
> not recognize this value).
> 
> Moritz
> 
>> 
>> ~ Eric. 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Barton
>> To: Patton, Eric; grassuser at grass.itc.it
>> Cc: grass-dev at grass.itc.it
>> Sent: 11/8/2006 2:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup
>> 
>> Is it something odd in your .grassrc6 file?
>> 
>> Michael
>> __________________________________________
>> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
>> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
>> Arizona State University
>> 
>> phone: 480-965-6213
>> fax: 480-965-7671
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>> 
>> 
>>> From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca>
>>> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:32:40 -0500
>>> To: <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
>>> Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
>>> Subject: [GRASS-dev] Gis.m Error in Grass 6.2 startup
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I get the following error on staring Grass 6.2 (compiled from
>> yesterday):
>>> $ grass62
>>> Cleaning up temporary files.....
>>> Starting GRASS ...
>>> ERROR: Invalid user interface specified - gis.m.
>>> Use the -help option to select a valid interface.
>>> $
>>> 
>>> No windows open. However, starting with grass62 -gui works as usual:
>> the
>>> graphical location selector opens, and gis.m opens normally after a
>> Location
>>> is selected.
>>> 
>>> ~ Eric.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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